W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.W. E. B. Du Bois
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
Abigail Breslin -
I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
Ted Yoho -
I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
Rachel Gibson -
Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
Ramez Naam -
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
Eartha Kitt
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
Macaulay Culkin -
Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
Foster Friess -
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell -
I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
Zosia Mamet -
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg -
I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
Nadia Comaneci
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
Barbra Streisand -
Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
Olivia Munn -
Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
Rachel Nichols -
It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
Edna Ferber -
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing.
Mary Chapin Carpenter -
My life's long radiant Summer halts at last, And lo! beside my path way I behold Pursuing Autumn glide: nor frost nor cold Has heralded her presence; but a vast Sweet calm that comes not till the year has passed Its fevered solstice, and a tinge of gold Subdues the vivid colouring of bold And passion-hued emotions. I will cast My August days behind me with my May, Nor strive to drag them into Autumn's place, Nor swear I hope when I do but remember. Now violet and rose have had their day, I'll pluck the soberer asters with good grace And call September nothing but September.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
Barbara Cartland -
We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.
W. E. B. Du Bois